We believe that our physical environment should reflect the pioneering changes that are occuring within classrooms and in our knowledge-community. To change this, we will offer free printing to any student or faculty member who wishes to exhibit qualified media designed to further integrate sustainability into our physical environment. If you have a groundbreaking chart from a presentation, it should not be allowed to be rolled up and stuffed into a closet or sequestered away in a hard drive. We promise to find a suitable place to display it.
We believe that the current conversation about sustainability is slowed from evolving because of a tendency for academic buildings to devolve back to blankness...the ideas proposed within our conferences, lectures, and projects often disappear after they are presented Compared to many urban environments, Stanford is a literal vacuum for exhibition space. Most teaching rooms look monastically austere and hallways are often long dead corridors. These places can be used to enhance the reach of local research, teaching and interdisciplinary conversations. Our movement is supported by studies that show how we learn better when we have creative control over our environment.
Our campaign is to redefine the versatility of Stanford's immediate physical environment.
Our movement is based on three central efforts:
1) Navigate institutional communication to comprehensively free up exhibition space, and create a scalable model that will set a precedent for making new spaces available.
2) Strongly encourage artists and scientists alike to display their qualified work, and integrate a committee framework for selecting and placing art, as well as providing any services required to make these final displays a reality.
3) Integrate a comprehensive, user-generated art map to geo-locate campus exhibitions and allow for participant-driven feedback to measure how our movement is doing.
This movement will make it exceptionally easy for other groups to join us and begin transforming their own schools, nationwide. Our effort is to prototype a platform for implementing broad-sweeping change in our physical environment. By making public research, teaching and community involvement more widely available in aesthetically attractive and space enhancing ways, we will contribute to a great shift in environmental and ethical consciousness.
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